Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1963

2 Extension of period for payments of subsidies in respect of hill sheep and cattle

In section 13 of the Hill Farming Act 1946 which (as amended by the Livestock Rearing Act 1951 and the Hill Farming Act 1956) provides—

(a) for the making of subsidy payments in respect of sheep comprised in flocks on any of the relevant days defined in subsection (2) of that section ; and

(b) for the making, in respect of certain years, of subsidy payments in respect of cattle ;

for the words " the sixteen next succeeding years ", in both places where they occur, there shall be substituted the words " the twenty next succeeding years " and for the words from " in the nine next succeeding years " to the end of the section there shall be substituted the words " in the nine next succeeding years as may be so specified and such day of December in the last of those years and in the ten next succeeding years as may be so specified ".